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Move Colorado Honors Steve Holt
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 Original Founders of CMAQ Front L-R: Bob Bisgard, Dick Sparlin, Steve Holt 2nd Row: Ralph Jackson, Larry Muller 3rd Row: Lee Eick, Randy Harrison, Erik Jensen |
Move Colorado honored Steve Holt for his lifetime of leadership and stewardship of transportation in Colorado at his “Presidential Retirement” as President of the organization at a special luncheon in November. He was an organizer, founding member, and President of both the Coalition of Mobility and Air Quality (CMAQ) and Move Colorado. Incoming President Mark Mehalko presented the Steve with the Move Colorado Transportation Leadership and Stewardship Award.
Steve Holt served the citizens, Governors and Legislatures of Colorado as a Member of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Transportation (1996), a Member of the Strategic Task Force for Statewide Transportation of the Colorado General Assembly (1990), and as Special Consultant to the Metropolitan Transportation Development Committee (1990). He contributed to the excellence of Colorado’s professional engineering community as Past President of the Consulting Engineers Council of Colorado, the Engineering Advisory Council at the University of Denver, and a founding Principal of Felsburg, Holt and Ullevig, one of Colorado’s foremost engineering firms.
Former CDOT Executive Director Ray Chamberlain acknowledged Steve at the event: “Your leadership over some two decades made CMAQ and Move Colorado useful and valuable public advocacy entities on behalf of the entire Colorado transportation community. This advocacy, in cooperation with other organizations, resulted in the addition of hundreds of millions of dollars for transportation investment in the highway and transit infrastructure of Colorado. Our collective quality of life in Colorado was immeasurably and positively influenced by your leadership and guidance. “
Floyd Ciruli, Ciruli Associates, a long time transportation observer and analyst, highlighted the event mixing humor, politics and history with his observations of current affairs – and Steve Holt. In addition to Ray Chamberlain, Steve received tributes and remembrances from Erik Jensen, Carla Perez, and Tony Milo.
DRCOG Forum on National Transportation Policy
 Tom Skanke |
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On October 14th, CDOT, DRCOG, Move Colorado, Patton Boggs, Ports-to-Plains, Progressive 15 and RTD hosted a breakfast for Tom Skancke, an appointee to the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission (the Commission). The Commission was set up by Congress to examine not only the condition and future needs of the nation's surface transportation system, but also short and long-term alternatives to replace or supplement the fuel tax as the principal revenue source to support the Highway Trust Fund over the next 30 years. The Commission completed a report of its findings along with a comprehensive set of recommendations for improving and funding the federal program (www.transportationfortomorrow.org).
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Transportation for Tomorrow | 9.5
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Mr. Skanke advocates that now is the time to make the case for transportation investment in America. He complemented CDOT’s Policy Office for preparing a Congressional Briefing Package for Senators and Representatives. It provides information on the condition of Colorado’s 9161 Total Centerline Miles with 125 “Poor” Rated Bridges, 36 % or 3,266 Miles of “Poor” Rated Highways with limited capacity to accommodate a future population of 1.2 million by 2020. Copies of the package can be downloaded below.
Senate and Congressional District Data: Conditions of Colorado Bridges and Highways
A new administration and an economic crisis will help us put transportation investment on the national agenda – we need to work hard with our congressional respresentatives to make it happen in 2009 – a vision and action. The Treasury Department projected in February that the trust fund’s highway account would show a $3.2-billion deficit in fiscal 2009. Although supplemental revenues were found to close the gap, highway funding would have to be cut in 2009 by $14 billion, or 34%. Even with the gap resolved, Governor Ritter’s budget for 2009 now projects $428 million decrease in transportation funding due to a 21.7 percent, or $96.4 million, decline in federal funding and a $332 million decline in Senate Bill 1 revenues.
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